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San Juan De La Costa

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This diversity makes for a very unique birding experience. In addition to the hundred or so species of birds I regularly find here, there are Desert Foxes, Bobcats, Mountain Lions, Desert Bighorn Sheep and Mule Deer. Box canyons, long arroyos, and rolling desert vistas, accented with several different kinds of cactus.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of March 2011)

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If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Also present in other parts of the park were fox and white-throated sparrows. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed. Wicked, right?

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

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Grief, friendship, gratitude, wonder, and other things we animals experience. Grief in magpies and red foxes: Saying goodbye to a friend. I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. Waterfall Dances: Do animals have spiritual experiences? by Marc Bekoff. Photo by Paul Huber.

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Mammals of South Asia (Lynx Edicions)

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Ahead of the first trip, I wasn’t thinking much about mammals, and yet, you cannot miss them, from Nilgais near villages to Indian Flying Foxes in town centres, not to mention those ubiquitous and irresistibly cute Palm Squirrels eating seeds left for parakeets. monkeys, deer, gazelles, etc.).

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Edgar Allan Poe's “The Raven”

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Again, Poe provides the anwer: Regarding, then, Beauty as my province, my next question referred to the tone of its highest manifestation- and all experience has shown that this tone is one of sadness. Fox in Socks, Cat in the Hat) out loud. Melancholy is thus the most legitimate of all the poetical tones. Wicked, right?

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Avian Quiz – March 11, 2011

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I have encountered this situation only one time in my birding experience. Crafty Like A Crow Birds at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Almost Squished Wood Thrush (and a fox) About the Author Jory Jory is a native Long Islander living just outside of Albany. It is not a new book, about 6 years old. Wicked, right?

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